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fallout

the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion any adverse and unwanted secondary effect a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal

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Professor, if there was radioactive fallout, wouldn't the wells on the other side of the island be affected?
Contaminated tuna and radioactive fallout, and now this Godzilla to top it all off!
In September, seeking to avoid fallout from the south, and despite his entire family's opposition, he purchased 1.6 square kilometers of property in Akita Prefecture and began to construct thereupon an unusual underground dwelling.
In November, after reading in a newspaper that fallout would come from the north, he halted construction.
You probably know better than anyone, but they say that even if a bomb is dropped on China, or America, or Russia, the fallout will eventually drift over Japan.
A tremendous amount of the radioactive fallout came this way.
Dr. Weigand's group is here to study fallout effects at their worst.
Brandon and Smee fallout.
The atmosphere here is polluted with a very high level of fallout and we've been walking around in it completely unprotected.
We'll handle any fallout.
When it is detonated, it will produce enough radioactive fallout so that in 10 months the surface of the Earth will be as dead as the moon.
Our studies show even the worst fallout is down to a safe level after two weeks.
Hey, doctor, do you suppose that I'm the victim of fallout?
Romantic fallout?
That's not a fall like any other. That's a fallout between Don Camillo and I.
Wow contains fallout, the exclusive, patented ingredient.
Mmm, it's this fear of radioactive fallout.
There is absolutely no evidence. pointing to radioactive fallout. or radioactive contamination of any kind.
Who are you trying to fool? It's the atomic fallout.
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout.
And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children and the children yet unborn.
If the wind wasn't from the north, we'd be hitting fallout.
If we get fallout in this area. this trailer will be about as safe as a silk nightgown.
We were just witnessing a funeral, a funeral that didn't come off exactly as planned due to a slight fallout from the twilight zone.
When it is detonated, it will produce enough radioactive fallout. so that in ten months. the surface of the Earth will be as dead as the moon!
And, if there were a war, at least 20 per cent of the areas into which people had been evacuated would themselves be rendered totally uninhabitable by the resulting radioactive fallout.
Carbon-14 is among the most dangerous elements of radioactive fallout.
British Civil Defence deliver to the public for the first time details of the hazards to be expected from radioactive fallout.
We're issuing to as many householders as possible a copy of this booklet, which tells them how to prepare their houses against blast and fallout.
And the biggest fallout shelter in the Bronx.
Well, we really have no equipment available for accurately measuring radiation fallout.
Come, my darling, let me show you what I've done to the fallout shelter.
Of course. 'Cause of all the fallout from the atomic wars.
What's a little fallout, huh?
We'd better commence the construction of a fallout shelter immediately.

News and current affairs

Fortunately, it may be possible to minimize the fallout for the rest of the world.
The fallout from nuclear waste is one; humans' contribution to global warming through greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, and its impact on rising sea levels, is another.
Experience shows that democracies hold the edge over authoritarian regimes when it comes to handling the fallout from crises.
Yes, America mismanaged its economy; but, no, the US did not somehow manage to impose the brunt of the global fallout on Europe.
Fortunately, this scenario still seems rather unlikely - as EU countries inside and outside the eurozone seem keen to avoid the enormous economic, financial, political, and social fallout that such a scenario implies.
And new episodes could emerge; two years ago, no one anticipated the fallout from the manipulation of the foreign-exchange markets.
This was certainly news to the finance ministers who had spent the past few years struggling with the toxic fallout from financial-sector excess.
Moreover, deep financial linkages among sectors amplified the potential fallout of financial risk.
They believe that the fallout can be contained without panic or contagion.
Even with their liquidity injections, the fallout from the financial crisis has eliminated the risk of a wage-price spiral that might otherwise have arisen.
I think that the Fed is wrong: the fallout from the current liquidity panic means that a year from now we are likely to wish that the Fed had given a boost to spending this month.
The fallout from Khodorkovsky's arrest is felt abroad as well.
If the fallout from those incidents is a reliable guide, however, nuclear power's advocates will eventually be back.
But, given that these economies have chosen to adhere to a fixed exchange rate, the Fed cannot really be blamed for the fallout.
That model is now threatened by the fallout from the scandal that started with phone hacking in Murdoch's British press operations.
While Argentina had been hit by the fallout from the emerging-market debt crisis of the late 1990's, Greece is now being hit by the increase in risk aversion since the financial crisis of 2008.
The financial fallout from the debt crisis could also result in huge losses for China.
Looking ahead, advanced countries will continue to struggle with the fallout of the 2008 crisis, especially with the deleveraging of indebted households and dire public finances.
Countries with more developed bond markets experienced less negative fallout from the crisis, since their large firms retained access to non-bank sources of finance.
If the fallout of the New York decision is an extensive Argentine default on other obligations, foreign trade will become practically impossible, many goods will become scarce, and domestic inflation will increase further.
The fallout from a war in Iran would pin down the US in the Middle East for years to come, undermining its new strategic priorities.
The fallout has shown the potential impact of an alleged gesture, especially in troubled times.
So, what can be done to minimize the fallout of another economic contraction and prevent a deeper depression and financial meltdown?
And every year, the fallout widens.
Meanwhile, the most recent twist in the Tibet fallout serves as a striking reminder of how China's newfound assertiveness and clout on the international scene is creating an increasingly complex challenge for foreign companies.

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